Here’s the situation: we have a song that we want to sing for church on Father’s day. The challenge is that it is a tough song for us to learn. I’ve used some open source tools to try to aid our practice and mastering of this song.
Here are my notes…
I have played with Festival before. It will easily generate speech from written commands. It seems pretty full featured. But, I have always wanted to add pitch. Could I make it sing the words?
I found an excellent link about music typesetting programs:
The program that I tried was MuseScore, which seemed to work very nicely. It seemed a little rough (as in, it crashed a couple of times), but it got the job done for me.
I was able to install MuseScore from Synaptic with the mscore package. There is also a mscore-common package as well.